Scott Summit is a co-founder of Bespoke Innovations. Summit has been designing consumer products for more than 20 years, including innovations for Apple, Nike, Palm, and other major brands, many of which have earned patents, as well as IDEA and IDSA awards.

Summit has held faculty positions teaching design and process at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and Singularity University. Additionally, Summit writes for Time Compression Magazine on the art and technology enabled by additive fabrication. He lives in the mountains of Marin County, California.

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In response to a question about the future of three-dimensional printing in manufacturing, Bespoke Innovations Co-Founder Scott Summit shares his opinion of the trajectory of this new technology. Summit believes 3D-printing technology has reached a "Columbus" moment of discovery, where designers and technologists in different fields know they're on the cusp of a huge leap forward.